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Getting Un-locked out of Webmin

Webmin has come a long way in the last year or two. I still (and always will) prefer the command line, but many customers are certainly much more comfortable using a web-interface to configure their server. I have to reset a password every once in a while and have to look up the steps every time. It seems I can never find them quickly, so I’ll put them here so I can find them easily next time.

Blocked IP addresses are stored a text file named /var/webmin/blocked. IP Address should be cleared out after some period of time, but you can hasten the process by clearing it manually:

cp /dev/null /var/webmin/blocked

Webmin passwords are stored in /etc/webmin/miniserv.users. A script for changing a user password is provided with webmin. Just run it like this:

2 thoughts on “Getting Un-locked out of Webmin”

It is possible to clean this file
/var/webmin/blocked
and the remove from here
/etc/webmin/miniserv.users
something like 0;:0 near user who is blocked. Then webmin restart… and you can use your old pass.